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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE'H. NEAL, OF FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA.

CRADLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 325,960, dated September 8. 1885.

A Application tiled June 16, 1885. (No model.)

`To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. NEAL, of Falls City, in the county of Richardson, in the State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement upon Cradles for Babies, of which the following specification is sufficient in law.

My invention is arfolding cradle-ethat is. a cradle having its several parts hinged together, in order that the article may be folded dat for economy of space intransportation.

' In the drawings, Figure l represents the cradle set up for use, Fig. 2, halffolded; Fig. 3, folded.

,A A2 represent the end boards, B B2 the side rails, and C C` the bottom rails, of the the cradle. The posts of the end boards are supported by'rockers D.

The foot rails are hinged in th'e center at a. rIhe side rails are joined in the center by tongue and groove b c, and to the end boards by dovetail joints d e. The upright posts m, at the end of the cradle, are hinged to the bottom rails at o. All parts fold inwardly.

each other in the center by tongue-and-groove joints and to the ends by dovetail joints, and properly secured, the cradle being adapted to fold together in a iiat condition, substantially as described. l

In testimony whereof I aiX my signature inpresence of two witnesses. i GEORGE H. NEAL Witnesses:

J. H. HUMLONG, D. W. SoWLEs. 

